The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. There are now two decades of research saying that having more exposure to part-time faculty who lack the most support leads to more dropouts, lower graduation rates, lower GPAs and difficulty finding a major.”

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. Establish a “no electronics policy” at dinnertime including for adults. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As we consider how to support students, we need to prioritize making sure they have enough to eat and a safe place to sleep along with providing high-quality instruction and internet access. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Autonomy also allows schools to determine what type of admissions policies work best for them. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 Budget autonomy allows schools to allocate funding as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular students. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During their college careers, far too many students lack reliable access to nutritious food, hampering their efforts to advance their education and skills. Drawing on these interviews, our research found that there are actions that institutions and policymakers can take to address students’ lack of access to nutritious food.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. He described a similar policy of gradually escalating discipline and said he considers suspension in response to poor attendance a last resort.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Dozens of organizations, including Achieving the Dream, have joined the Level UP National Panel to raise awareness of solutions and introduce policies that will reverse the trending inequity. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Research indicates that this kind of learning opportunity has a lifelong impact: It can help reduce dropout rates, increase on-time graduation rates and help “students apply and extend classroom learning,” according to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Our shared future depends on it.

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Minga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Reduced Dropout Rates: Supports at-risk students with targeted interventions , fostering engagement, relationships, and persistence. Advanced Class Scheduling : At Allen High School , seniors with enough Minga points gain VIP early access to the class scheduling system, allowing them to select classes 48 hours before their peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Carrie Welton, director of policy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. “If If our survey was taken now, the results would likely be 100 times worse,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy at the Hope Center. The system was failing parenting students even prior to Covid.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Another approach to improve access to child care is to modify the federal financial aid system. Leave this field empty if you're human: Furthermore, federal financial aid policies could be changed to allow the living expenses of a student’s dependent children to be included in the student’s cost of college attendance. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Principal Adrian Montes, top right, and educators from Redland Elementary, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, show a group of migrant students who weren’t logging in for online classes how to access their individual classes and assignments. Housing policy is education policy.”. “We Credit: Redland Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But it was also about race and class.” Communities such as St.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Only one in four students with learning disabilities disclose their disabilities to their colleges, leaving them without access to critical accommodations and putting them at greater risk of leaving school without a degree. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. So why does this happen?

Advocacy 75

Advocacy Dropout Policies Training 75

edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Baltimore has now established a partnership framework aligned with district policies and priorities and a rubric for evaluating partners. These events have made the district’s recovery plan more accessible and enabled district leaders to answer the key question for most parents, “What does it mean for my child?”. Join the Community.

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Education Dropout Social Media Laptops 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In recent years, truancy policies have started shifting away from punitive measures to providing more support for students who are chronically absent. They are trying to have an attendance policy like they are in person, but they are not in person” Megan Jackson, teacher, Chicago. Then the student’s school-provided computer broke.

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We To date, though, the district hasn’t changed its policy, she said.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Furthermore, three-year degrees have broad political appeal, as indicated by their endorsement by both the Progressive Policy Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. For example, college faculty publish papers in journals with conclusions that incorporate policy and practical recommendations.

Industry 106

Industry Policies Accessibility Course 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Jack’s book brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions for fostering policies that often “emphasize class differences, amplifying students’ feelings of difference and undercutting their sense of belonging.”. Access, Jack says, is not inclusion.

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Policies Report Accessibility Analysis 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. But now, we must take them on with a renewed sense of urgency.

Survey 119

Survey Report Accessibility Trends 119

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates. Many students in Mississippi lack access to mental health care , which is something a counselor can often provide.

Accessibility 46

Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 46

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

It was for us: We educated ourselves about laws, policies and support systems through the help of these centers.

Resources 92

Resources Policies Report Groups 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 115